So I'm watching The Monday Night War, episode two in specific, and I can't help but feel grateful that Vince went into wrestling instead of world domination because MAN does that guy know how to do propaganda. I had gotten used to the line of "WCW was competitive because they stole WWE guys" but hearing them now take it a step further and say it's because the WCW fans were actually just WWE fans and they were glad to see the superior WWE guys come in and beat up the inferior WCW guys...mindblown. The most interesting part about it is that you listen to Vince talk, you see the decisions he's made since buying WCW, and you just have to know that it's how he really believes it happened. Is there any hope that Trips isn't as insane as Vince and that some of this will get better when he takes over?
I dunno, but holy shit did that second episode kind of go off the rails already. Hall and Nash were apparently carrying the WWF through 1995 and everyone thought of Randy Savage as a washed up 80s star? At least the documentary DVDs sort of TRIED to be a version of the truth.
Vince has always been completely full of shit. Remember kids, WCW "raided and stole" talent from ECW and the WWF. Vince just gave guys in WCW and ECW an opportunity.
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ReplyDeleteNo Chance In Hell. Why? See: Stephanie McMahon. She might make Vince really look like the small-time promoter he cried about being in 1995-96...
The jump from 2.2 to 3.7 was exclusive WWF fans watching Nitro instead of Raw.
ReplyDeleteVince: You know, Andre really did weigh 700 pounds.
ReplyDeleteCrazy thing is...there's apparently 18 more parts to this.
ReplyDeleteMy dad actually felt the way Vince is now talking. The real talent is the Hogan's and those punks like Benoit and Jericho should be jobbing to Hogan in ten seconds.
ReplyDeleteVince DID think Savage was a washed-up 80s star, which is why he didn't let him wrestle full-time in 1993-94 despite being by far the biggest name in the company once Hogan left.
ReplyDeleteNo reason why the tune would change 20 years later.
The only person that thought Savage was washed up in 1993-94 was Vince.
ReplyDeleteI love how Nash makes himself look like a genius when he says he informed WCW's brass that the public's perception of WCW was they were chumps because Hall & Nash held them off with a couple baseball bats.
ReplyDeleteAlso, is there truth to WCW believing WWF's claims of Razor Ramon and Diesel coming back? Nash says WCW gave him and Hall larger contracts as a panic move.
He also thought Hogan was washed up too. He allowed Traylor to leave in early 1993. He was calling Savage a legend when he substituted for an exiting Mr. Perfect. Savage could have still gone in 1994, and wasn't horrible in his 1995 run in WCW -- although he really didn't get good again until DDP.
ReplyDeleteWWE still butt-hurt that WCW kicked their asses for nearly two years straight lol.
ReplyDeletePerhaps we should ask Vince where about two million "WWF fans" went when WCW went under.
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I honestly can't understand why anyone continues to be surprised by the pro-WWF/E angle in all of these "documentary" programs. If anything, I'm constantly shocked by how much positive credit they're willing to give Bischoff in these things.